"Asking questions of anything, including our understanding of ourselves, is about working to develop or nurture our own awareness, our understanding of the world and about challenging our own ideas or those of others in order to get at what we experience and know as our own truth. It’s about making sure that what we think is really what we think, not just what other people have told us to think. I know that having a big, burning question of any kind you don’t know the answer to and really want the answer to, especially when it’s about yourself, can be seriously frustrating, particularly when others have an answer for themselves or expect you to have one. Anyone (including yourself!) giving you any kind of grief about being thoughtful and mindful clearly has their own kind of questioning they should be doing about why they’re so threatened by people doing gender or orientation questioning. If you’re in a space of questioning – whether it’s about orientation or gender or anything else at all – I’d encourage you to claim it, let yourself have it and understand that you’re entitled to it.
Question away!"
Heather Corinna, Q is for Questioning
